Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-10-14
ORlGlNL AND BORROWED.

D6 tHdDlcu W ItdliLe cuOuBh IIOm
the sale of Struggled goods that
have been confscated, to pay its
running expenses.
THIS is the season of the year
when the hunter who drags his
gun along the ground by the barrel,
and the man who did not know 1t
was loaded, get in their fine work.
The poem written by the late
Capt. James Barron Hope will be
read at the laying of the corner
stone of the Lee Monument in Rich.
mond by Capt. W. Gordon McCabe.
The 6,0O0.ton, armored battle.
ship to be constructed for the
United States navy, tocOst within a
fraction Of two and half millions
of dollars. is to be built at the
Gosport navy yard, near Norfolk.
The Vanderbilt family hold for
ty million United States four per
cent bonds and are still accumula.
ting property. 1t is the way of the
world. As a rule the more people
haye the more they want.
The hustle is having hard time.
1t has been discovered as a snug.
Cling apparatus on various occa-
siOns, and the other day in Mem.
phis a hustle used as a bank by its
owner was carried off while she
was asleep. 1t contained 1000.
While the President is looking
after his fences in the far West,
those in the east are suffering great
damage. In New York last week,
the administrations candidates for
places on the state committee we're
beaten two to one.
"Tell me We angelic host, We mes
sengers of love, shall we swindled
printers here below have no re-
dress above ~ The angels tapped
their wings and said; ITO you
hope is given; delinquents on a
printers book can meyer enter heav-
en."-Er.
A young lady wishes to know if
you can tell anything about a gen.
tleman by the color of his eyes,
We should not like to risk any pos
tive reply, but will venture to say
that something can be determined
by the color of his nose.
A gentleman was complaining
on Change yesterdy that he had |
invested rather large sum of
money in Wall street and lost 1t |
all. A sympathizing friend asked |
him whether he had been "bull" |
or "bear" to which he replied
"Neither; | was a iackass."
VIM. Dalton, or Rockingham
county, is now in the eighty.fifth |
yeaI Of his age, and enjoys robust
health. He is the father of fourteen
and has 1876 children and
living. His father
lived to be ninety five years old,
and his grandfather reached the
great age Oils.
A man was killed by lightning in
the upper part of King William
on Thursday night, under
peculiar circumstances. He was
IN bed, his wife lying by his side,
when the lightning struck, passed
through window, and out of the
lOor. The man was instantly kill
I'd, but his wife received only very
slight shock,
Farmers who are disposed to
yrumble about "hard times" and
ow prices of farm products, shOOld
ponder the following statement
rom an exchange, and be consoled
hereby:
Sixty years ago bnshel of wheat
would buy only two yards of calico
II shifting, now it will buy fifteen
n twenty. Then a bushel of corn
would only buy pound of nails,
low it will buy ten, Then it took {
good cow to buy a PAIR of factory i
blankets, now a common COW will :
,ay for six pairs fully as good. ,
Think these things over, farmer,
Vhen disposed to wish for "the {
'OOd old times"